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The Development of forum non conveniens in the Chinese Law and Practice

Conflict of Laws

Cornell), Bachelor of Laws (ZUEL). * The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an important principle in civil procedure laws and frequently applied by courts in many legal systems, especially those of common law countries. Furthermore, in the case of Sumitomo Bank v.

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Avoidance of the debtor’s transactions within the framework of a foreign insolvency before a Russian court

Conflict of Laws

Kostin, Senior Research Fellow at the Private Law Research Centre (Moscow, Russia) and counsel atAvangard law firm. and Valeria Rzyanina, junior associate, Avangard Law Firm. This is a synopsis of an article published in the Herald of Civil Procedure Law Journal N 1/2021 in Russian). Conclusion.

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The Power of Paralegal Mentors – An Interview with Ashley Stasiewich

Paralegal Bootcamp

And the approach is really different because paralegals need to have a knowledge of procedural law, a little bit of sustainable law, and they also need to have technical skills. And one big example is real estate lawyers. Reasonably so. Uh, but there’s really nothing about legal education of paralegals.

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Chinese Supreme People’s Court Issued New Judicial Interpretation on Hierarchical Jurisdiction on Foreign-Related Disputes

Conflict of Laws

277 of the PRC Civil Procedure Law, different from domestic trials, foreign-related trials would not be subject to the statutory time limit. Regulation 2002 also excludes its application to “trade disputes occurred in border provinces and foreign-related real estate disputes”. Predictability.

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